In South america you can see lots of 3 passengers motorcycles which come in this bubble form factor. They are priced in 1700-2000 USD. https://www.alibaba.com/produc... and it looks like the electric ones are coming too.
whipslash have you thought on including some monetization options for the developers in SourceForge? Some ideas: 1. An end user wants a new feature in a project in SourceForge. If they could send the request to the developer via SourceForge and end user and developer be able to arrange a price paid (SF charging a fee/percent for the service) would be great! 2. Paid Support plans. Even simple support plans out of the box would be interesting: the developer offers to be in a SourceForge chat room each Friday from 5 pm to 7 pm for their paid support subscribers. SF charges a fee/percent. 3. Core project model. Be able to offer in SourceForge two versions: a) their Official (paid) version with the classic year updates included and yearly renewals; and b) their in-develpement/unstable/core (unpaid) version. SF charges a fee/percent for the official version.
It is risky but i think SF has still a good position to try something like this. If you can help to have sustainable opensource projects where the developers can get economical retribution from them it will be a game changer.
In this case the real search engine on Yahoo is Bing. It will surely be 5 more years and Bing would be interested in keeping this deal going.
And don't forget that Yahoo has been in talks to be bought by Microsoft before.
I am another happy user with Firefox on Android. I haven't noticed important issues and I like more the browsing controls on Firefox (open new tabs, going back and forward, closing tabs) than other navigators.
I have a very similar experience. Google results are more relevant when doing tech stuff searches than the other engines. Bing has improved over the years but it still gives too many unrelated results.
The DMCA notice concept that is mentioned on the summary is very well explained by Ken Liu on this article:
http://www.sfwa.org/2013/03/th... it can be helpful for the people trying to enforce their copyrights
I think that another use for Chromecast is for dashboard displays. Usually you put a computer + monitor for each station where you want to display dashboards showing the current status of production line/sales/promotions/news/donations/etc. With chromecast you can point it to the website that will display the info and you are set.
Chromecast is a Wifi device with a chrome browser/js engine so this use case can be cheap and interesting because you don't need a computer, just a monitor and a working wifi signal.
The process for handling the money is very similar as you have described. The foundation is the entity that receives the funds (money or equipment) and tag them for the project that they were donated. So the foundation keep the donations for each project independent. If you need money for a conference or to pay the hostings and your project have the resources then they can send the project leader a wire or a check or in some cases make the payments directly in behalf of the project. The expenses have to match the legal policies for a non profit organization (all the previous samples are fine).
Each foundation has its own rules and processes to be accepted, there was a really interesting thread some months ago in the vertx mailing list where some of the foundation leaders exposed their own strengths: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vertx/WIuY5M6RluM%5B1-25-false%5D look at the posts from:
Jim Jagielski (Apache), Bradley M. Kuhn (SFConservacy), Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Jenkins, this project is on SPI), Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse), Paula Hunter and Stephen Walli (Outercurve)
Maybe we are in the BSOD (Black Screen Of Death); you know, you are working in the "metastable" Winverse and poof, the BSOD appears expanding on full screen... the reboot will occur soon? Are we on DOSverse?
I strongly believe this is a very promising road. Most of the problem is the apps, but Android ecosystem actually have thousands. It's a win - win. Still the power users can use the last stand man in the desktop wars but the consumers can use a very strong linux.
Another road is working more like MacOSX, maybe a ObjectiveC compiler, so we can improve the compatibility.
Other option can be start a Web Desktop project. Something like B2G on Linux, same principles, but I like more the Android way;)
Finally we have the frameworks for writting Desktop HTML5 apps like appjs
or the formerly Titanium Desktop TideSDK.
They are growing but the concept of having Web technologies on desktop can help on grabbing again the developers to Linux. I think this is the red alert. The programmers are choosing MacOSX:/ And having an extra layer for the app can solve the universal installer problem also. Every distribution has a browser, look on this appjs and TideSDK. like a browser app with desktop access apis.:D
I think this kind of emails are helpful for linux desktop development. I agree with the firefox fonts. It should be out of the box on RHEL. This is the linux distribution most corporations knows. I'm not sure about system settings or desktop customization settings (because they are for power users). I definitively would want to have an easy way to use an external projector/tv/monitor. And keep working on getting easier to configure wireless, bluetooth, volume settings.
Also, i would advise to think on corporate features for linux. They have been moving to web on last years. A good office+web linux box can be something they can use on some of their workstations, but it's a requirement that it should be easy to maintain. This is the hard part: You need to be able to change the settings from a central place, to change the proxy and other settings on firefox from a central place, to have rsync out of the box, to have samba and its new directory out of the box, to have a GUI for samba that allows to share the user's own files, to have a central way to change samba settings, to have a centralized backup system, to add fonts from central, to have a way to easily do a remote install/uninstall. To have a way to configure an easy menu with the permitted apps and the same on firefox (for webapps). Name it like coporate users want: Fedora Workstation or Ubuntu professional or OpenSuse corporate. If your concern is how linux can go in the corporate world, well corporate is actually one of Linux's strenghts. Corporations uses it on their mission critical services. The hard job (tech approval) is done. It makes sense if it lowers costs, not only licensing ones but maintenance and support. Many of the tools are there: samba, puppet, bacula, mondo. Some of them requires some polish for the end user (e.g. a way to see which backups are done on your workstation and to recover it, a way to add easily network shares). I'm sure desktop is a problem on meeting user's need. Ask google and android.
It's a little science+fiction, but it's anyway a great reading.
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He states that:
"(...) Berkeley astronomer Don Goldsmith reminds us that the earth receives about one billionth of the suns energy, and that humans utilize about one millionth of that. So we consume about one million billionth of the suns total energy. At present, our entire planetary energy production is about 10 billion billion ergs per second."
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and also, he suggests that we have to search for a combination of a star and a planet with great infrared emissions:
"Eventually, after several thousand years, a Type I civilization will exhaust the power of a planet, and will derive their energy by consuming the entire output of their suns energy, or roughly a billion trillion trillion ergs per second.
With their energy output comparable to that of a small star, they should be visible from space. Dyson has proposed that a Type II civilization may even build a gigantic sphere around their star to more efficiently utilize its total energy output . Even if they try to conceal their existence, they must, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, emit waste heat. From outer space, their planet may glow like a Christmas tree ornament. Dyson has even proposed looking specifically for infrared emissions (rather than radio and TV) to identify these Type II civilizations."
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Finally from the original article we see a theory i want to add to this reasoning:
"One possibility is that Wasp-18, a sunlike, medium-sized star, is a thousand times less energetic than would be expected. That would mean it produces much less friction on the planet than normal."
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Why this star has a thousand times less energy than it should have?
In the debate between BSD like licenses and GPL licenses, we have to look a new way to license commercial GPL software: A limited functional GPL version without commercial support plus a full-featured commercial version with support.
Let's remember the most succesful open source database software (and commercial) is GPL: MySQL.
The original developer is upset because he is not getting revenue for his work while others are.
That isn't against the license he decide to use, but we have here an economics issue.
The market is awarding the one that has the better sales channel (and the one that has keep the innovation pace).
So, my conclusion is that OPEN SOURCE NEEDS BETTER SALES CHANNELS!
How do I see it? We don't have to invent anything, we have to analyze the succesful cases: RedHat, Apple, Oracle, EBay, Amazon.
We need a OPEN SOURCE STORE (sourceforge? Ibm?), where someone can purchase packaged open source solutions, support services (like RedHat), university to have a learning path on the solutions, AND purchase new features (this is new!).
PURCHASING OF FEATURES
It's the process of contacting a developer and getting a new feature.
Suppose I want to sell an open source project to a customer on Mexico, I did'nt have a efficient way to purchase changes to the original developer.
i want to have a place were i can contact in a easy way the developer teams.
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Really liked it. Thank you, sharing it now :)
In South america you can see lots of 3 passengers motorcycles which come in this bubble form factor.
They are priced in 1700-2000 USD.
https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
and it looks like the electric ones are coming too.
whipslash have you thought on including some monetization options for the developers in SourceForge?
Some ideas:
1. An end user wants a new feature in a project in SourceForge. If they could send the request to the developer via SourceForge and end user and developer be able to arrange a price paid (SF charging a fee/percent for the service) would be great!
2. Paid Support plans. Even simple support plans out of the box would be interesting: the developer offers to be in a SourceForge chat room each Friday from 5 pm to 7 pm for their paid support subscribers. SF charges a fee/percent.
3. Core project model. Be able to offer in SourceForge two versions: a) their Official (paid) version with the classic year updates included and yearly renewals; and b) their in-develpement/unstable/core (unpaid) version. SF charges a fee/percent for the official version.
It is risky but i think SF has still a good position to try something like this. If you can help to have sustainable opensource projects where the developers can get economical retribution from them it will be a game changer.
In this case the real search engine on Yahoo is Bing. It will surely be 5 more years and Bing would be interested in keeping this deal going. And don't forget that Yahoo has been in talks to be bought by Microsoft before.
I am another happy user with Firefox on Android. I haven't noticed important issues and I like more the browsing controls on Firefox (open new tabs, going back and forward, closing tabs) than other navigators.
I have a very similar experience. Google results are more relevant when doing tech stuff searches than the other engines. Bing has improved over the years but it still gives too many unrelated results.
What if Minecraft releases the decompiled code with GPL license?
Yes, this is what the developer is arguing. The issue is not with the server but with the mod.
The DMCA notice concept that is mentioned on the summary is very well explained by Ken Liu on this article: http://www.sfwa.org/2013/03/th... it can be helpful for the people trying to enforce their copyrights
I like to use PDFCreator for this purpose. It is on sourceforge here: http://sourceforge.net/project...
Interesting opinion, thank you for preparing and sharing it.
I think that another use for Chromecast is for dashboard displays. Usually you put a computer + monitor for each station where you want to display dashboards showing the current status of production line/sales/promotions/news/donations/etc. With chromecast you can point it to the website that will display the info and you are set.
Chromecast is a Wifi device with a chrome browser/js engine so this use case can be cheap and interesting because you don't need a computer, just a monitor and a working wifi signal.
This reminds me an old story here in slashdot (about the hot jupiters): http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/08/27/1237251/Astrophysicists-Find-Impossible-Planet We are improving the search of impossible planets!
Have you considered to be part of one of the open source foundations?
http://www.spi-inc.org/ Software in the Public Interest ( http://www.spi-inc.org/projects/associated-project-howto/ )
http://sfconservancy.org/ Software Freedom Conservancy
http://www.ffis.de/ (Germany)
And the most known Eclipse, Apache and Outercurve Foundations
The process for handling the money is very similar as you have described. The foundation is the entity that receives the funds (money or equipment) and tag them for the project that they were donated. So the foundation keep the donations for each project independent. If you need money for a conference or to pay the hostings and your project have the resources then they can send the project leader a wire or a check or in some cases make the payments directly in behalf of the project. The expenses have to match the legal policies for a non profit organization (all the previous samples are fine).
Each foundation has its own rules and processes to be accepted, there was a really interesting thread some months ago in the vertx mailing list where some of the foundation leaders exposed their own strengths: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vertx/WIuY5M6RluM%5B1-25-false%5D look at the posts from:
Jim Jagielski (Apache), Bradley M. Kuhn (SFConservacy), Kohsuke Kawaguchi (Jenkins, this project is on SPI), Mike Milinkovich (Eclipse), Paula Hunter and Stephen Walli (Outercurve)
This site has some nice pics from the E3 event, focused on booth babes: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2216/
Maybe we are in the BSOD (Black Screen Of Death); you know, you are working in the "metastable" Winverse and poof, the BSOD appears expanding on full screen... the reboot will occur soon? Are we on DOSverse?
Lazarus can be a good alternative... but it is delphi based (not so fashion). Anyway, very nice IDE :D
TideSDK (formerly Titanium Desktop) has a similar concept than Steam for the Desktop apps, and it is Open Source.
I strongly believe this is a very promising road. Most of the problem is the apps, but Android ecosystem actually have thousands. It's a win - win. Still the power users can use the last stand man in the desktop wars but the consumers can use a very strong linux. ;) :/ And having an extra layer for the app can solve the universal installer problem also. Every distribution has a browser, look on this appjs and TideSDK. :D
Another road is working more like MacOSX, maybe a ObjectiveC compiler, so we can improve the compatibility.
Other option can be start a Web Desktop project. Something like B2G on Linux, same principles, but I like more the Android way
Finally we have the frameworks for writting Desktop HTML5 apps like appjs or the formerly Titanium Desktop TideSDK.
They are growing but the concept of having Web technologies on desktop can help on grabbing again the developers to Linux. I think this is the red alert. The programmers are choosing MacOSX
like a browser app with desktop access apis.
I think this kind of emails are helpful for linux desktop development. I agree with the firefox fonts. It should be out of the box on RHEL. This is the linux distribution most corporations knows. I'm not sure about system settings or desktop customization settings (because they are for power users).
I definitively would want to have an easy way to use an external projector/tv/monitor. And keep working on getting easier to configure wireless, bluetooth, volume settings.
Also, i would advise to think on corporate features for linux. They have been moving to web on last years. A good office+web linux box can be something they can use on some of their workstations, but it's a requirement that it should be easy to maintain. This is the hard part: You need to be able to change the settings from a central place, to change the proxy and other settings on firefox from a central place, to have rsync out of the box, to have samba and its new directory out of the box, to have a GUI for samba that allows to share the user's own files, to have a central way to change samba settings, to have a centralized backup system, to add fonts from central, to have a way to easily do a remote install/uninstall. To have a way to configure an easy menu with the permitted apps and the same on firefox (for webapps). Name it like coporate users want: Fedora Workstation or Ubuntu professional or OpenSuse corporate. If your concern is how linux can go in the corporate world, well corporate is actually one of Linux's strenghts. Corporations uses it on their mission critical services. The hard job (tech approval) is done. It makes sense if it lowers costs, not only licensing ones but maintenance and support.
Many of the tools are there: samba, puppet, bacula, mondo. Some of them requires some polish for the end user (e.g. a way to see which backups are done on your workstation and to recover it, a way to add easily network shares).
I'm sure desktop is a problem on meeting user's need. Ask google and android.
Is it possible to develop applications other than games on Steam? It would be great for developing apps with great graphics.
It's important to check 3 sites: http://community.jboss.org/wiki/SecureTheJmxConsole --> Wiki site on Jboss http://community.jboss.org/wiki/SecureTheJmxConsole/diff?secondVersionNumber=47 --> This is important because the Wiki site has some missing info that you can see in this diff https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-30741 --> Another related security problem Check your Jboss config!!
You can find it here: http://mkaku.org/home/?page_id=246
It's a little science+fiction, but it's anyway a great reading.
He states that:
"(...) Berkeley astronomer Don Goldsmith reminds us that the earth receives about one billionth of the suns energy, and that humans utilize about one millionth of that. So we consume about one million billionth of the suns total energy. At present, our entire planetary energy production is about 10 billion billion ergs per second."
and also, he suggests that we have to search for a combination of a star and a planet with great infrared emissions:
"Eventually, after several thousand years, a Type I civilization will exhaust the power of a planet, and will derive their energy by consuming the entire output of their suns energy, or roughly a billion trillion trillion ergs per second. With their energy output comparable to that of a small star, they should be visible from space. Dyson has proposed that a Type II civilization may even build a gigantic sphere around their star to more efficiently utilize its total energy output . Even if they try to conceal their existence, they must, by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, emit waste heat. From outer space, their planet may glow like a Christmas tree ornament. Dyson has even proposed looking specifically for infrared emissions (rather than radio and TV) to identify these Type II civilizations."
Finally from the original article we see a theory i want to add to this reasoning:
"One possibility is that Wasp-18, a sunlike, medium-sized star, is a thousand times less energetic than would be expected. That would mean it produces much less friction on the planet than normal."
Why this star has a thousand times less energy than it should have?
Let's remember the most succesful open source database software (and commercial) is GPL: MySQL.
The MySQL model have been changing to a somewhat popular dual-license style, that is been called open core license, you can read an excellent article from Mathew Aslett here: http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/09/01/andrew-lampitt-defines-open-core-licensing/
The described model is used on some open source projects like Hyperic, Zenoss, Groundwork, Mindtouch and more coming.
The original developer is upset because he is not getting revenue for his work while others are. That isn't against the license he decide to use, but we have here an economics issue. The market is awarding the one that has the better sales channel (and the one that has keep the innovation pace). So, my conclusion is that OPEN SOURCE NEEDS BETTER SALES CHANNELS! How do I see it? We don't have to invent anything, we have to analyze the succesful cases: RedHat, Apple, Oracle, EBay, Amazon. We need a OPEN SOURCE STORE (sourceforge? Ibm?), where someone can purchase packaged open source solutions, support services (like RedHat), university to have a learning path on the solutions, AND purchase new features (this is new!). PURCHASING OF FEATURES It's the process of contacting a developer and getting a new feature. Suppose I want to sell an open source project to a customer on Mexico, I did'nt have a efficient way to purchase changes to the original developer. i want to have a place were i can contact in a easy way the developer teams.